Dávid Lantos

Father of 1. Husband of 1.
83% potato.
Programmer in 🇬🇧, born in 🇧🇾 raised in 🇭🇺.
He/him. Backend @ Cleo

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

Saddest short story

[Barney Hussey-Yeo @Barney_H_Y]

Fun fireside with @collision at Stripe Tour London yesterday.

- Fable hot takes
- Running an org in the AI era
- Why the EU/UK suck at tech

Full thing here:
https://t.co/uWd6tX1H1o

[Barney Hussey-Yeo @Barney_H_Y]

Featured in The Times today on why UK tech won't list in London. Here's what needs to change:

"Does it matter if UK tech lists on Nasdaq rather than the LSE?"

Absolutely.

As a founder, when growth capital and public market demand concentrate elsewhere, you optimise for where the money is. The centre of gravity shifts:

- You hire in the US
- You relocate leadership to the US
- You prioritise the US market

You reshape the company to look and feel American, because that's what US investors expect.

The outcome for the UK is predictable:

- High-paying jobs migrate
- Venture and public-market returns flow abroad
- UK ownership in UK-born tech evaporates
- Founders feel pressure to leave

As I told The Times: "It's a real travesty that the fastest growing and the best companies are leaving. If you're successful as a British company you become an American company."

We need an environment where ambitious tech can scale and list in the UK. Otherwise we accept gradual decline.

This doesn't require massive new spend, just better incentives and plumbing:

Pensions → productive equity: Accelerate and hard-wire the Mansion House direction. The current accord is too weak and coming too late. We need 10x the ambition, legislated before the next election. DC schemes should allocate a measured slice to UK growth equity/VC via suitable vehicles. Minimal direct fiscal cost; appropriate risk controls essential.

Tech-focused retail access: Create a Tech ISA so everyday investors can own British growth companies. Keep it cost-neutral by adjusting the cash ISA mix. We're one of the few economies that incentivises cash hoarding this aggressively.

Competitive founder taxation: Offer preferential CGT treatment for founders who list on the LSE and remain listed for a set period. With very few venture-backed listings today, the revenue impact is negligible.

Scrap stamp duty for tech: Exempt venture-backed tech companies from stamp duty on share transactions. This self-inflicted wound reduces liquidity for no good reason. Since these companies aren't listing here anyway, eliminating it costs nothing but would remove a major competitive disadvantage versus the US.

Outcompete on listings in practice: Recent reforms helped, but aren't enough. CEOs still see London as prohibitive versus the US on compensation flexibility, dual-class implementation, and disclosure burden. We need to compete on these details, not just principles.

Think bigger: Create a pan-European exchange or explore an LSE-Nasdaq merger. Give UK tech access to deeper capital pools and global liquidity. Non-trivial? Yes. But this is the scale of ambition we need to compete globally.

The UK has the talent, universities and early-stage ecosystem. This budget could be the moment to get the LSE working.

Let's make listing here the rational choice, not the exception.

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

@ThreeUKSupport Hi, my network has been limping for a few days now. Typical download down to 1-4mbps. Was well over 70mbps in the past. Tried all the update/restart/move around stuff. Please help

CELL_ID: 13468765
RSRQ: -9.0dB
RSRP: -80dBm
RSSI: -57dBm
SINR: 1dB

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

@sgerrand Still down and no comms either. They are not being terribly open about this

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

Garmin seems to be having a knotty IT incident today (nothing works) which also affects their call centres. 7+ hours now.

[Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney]

One of the most useful inclusions (but most common omission) on software architecture diagrams is teams.

Show relationships between people and software, not just software structure.

Architecture is a socio-technical construct, but we often focus on the technical in isolation.

[Kevlin Henney @KevlinHenney]

My impression is that most tutorials on mocking and mocking frameworks lead with how to stub code for tests than how to actually use mocks for testing.

Such priming might explain many common misunderstandings around mocking, as well as the parlous state of many mock-based tests.

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

EasyJet cybersecurity incident: 21 May 2020

Me getting daily 15 spam e-mails instead of the usual weekly 5: 25 May and onwards

Most of the spam is Bitcoin scam

[Susie Dent @susie_dent]

It’s that time again. A mumpsimus (16th century) is someone who refuses to budge/insists that they are right, despite clear evidence that they are wrong. Plural: mumpsimuses.

[Amanda 🏳️‍🌈🔮 @ayymanduh]

Integrity. Honesty. Objectivity. Impartiality.

Always.

✊🏼

[Trond Hjorteland @trondhjort]

This was put on my timeline by @ruthmalan and I think it is a good illustration of what an architect should be to the teams.

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

https://t.co/e7Ms9YBESQ 👏
"Writing saves time"
"Writing makes meetings a last resort"
"Writing removes extrovert bias"
"Writing invites other perspectives"
"How to write better"

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

Things I learn from my daughter: never thought to put a chair diagonally before

[The Onion @TheOnion]

Man Not Sure Why He Thought Most Psychologically Taxing Situation Of His Life Would Be The Thing To Make Him Productive https://t.co/CH27ZBsvEf

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

Today at bedtime, for the first time, I read from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe for my daughter. Today was a good day.

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

@simonbrown In my experience, the first thing people tend to drop when pressed for time is recording decisions.

Diagrams are created only to quickly share an idea.

If a company doesn’t have established diagram tooling, it’s quicker to draw a static image.

[Dávid Lantos @sldblog]

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“Reiki Distance Healing Specialist Certification Course” https://t.co/861Yk55vdn

[Richard Crawley @richardatpas]

Unique property identifiers to be opened under Open Government License https://t.co/NK8aJt8Ir1